raciness
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- n a strong odor or taste property
the raciness of the wine - n behavior or language bordering on indelicacy
- When other young instructors were construing Tennyson and Browning, Cross discovered a taste for the directness and raciness of Chaucer.
- Like that play, his others have come under the censor's ban not because of any raciness or hurtful satire, but merely because of a technicality which prevents public performance .
- The "it's not TV, it's HBO" raciness masks a core of sitcom truisms, right down to the lumpy male lead married to a gorgeous blond.